Department of Sociology, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shatin, Hong Kong, China.
Department of Sociology, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA.
J Community Psychol. 2023 Mar;51(2):724-744. doi: 10.1002/jcop.22909. Epub 2022 Jun 15.
Globally, rural children are more likely than others to experience barriers to opportunity. We propose context-relevant family risk and protective factors for children in rural villages in one of China's poorest provinces and analyze long-term implications for educational and mental health outcomes in early adulthood. Four proposed risk factors-low parental education, insufficient income, parental migration, and parental ill-health-show statistically significant detrimental implications for educational attainment. Low parental education stands out, with negative estimated effects on all outcomes. Insufficient income predicts higher scores for depression but not self-esteem. Parental migration and parental ill health have no significant relationships with mental health outcomes. Proposed protective factors- parental warmth, doing things together, and household credit limit-have positive estimated effects on educational attainment, but not on most mental health outcomes. Few interactions between protective and risk factors exist, and patterns are generally similar for girls and boys.
在全球范围内，农村儿童比其他儿童更有可能面临机会障碍。我们提出了与中国最贫困省份之一的农村村庄相关的情境风险和保护因素，并分析了它们对儿童早期教育和心理健康结果的长期影响。四个提出的风险因素——父母教育程度低、收入不足、父母迁移和父母健康状况不佳——对教育程度有统计学上显著的不利影响。父母教育程度低尤为突出，对所有结果都有负面的估计影响。收入不足预示着抑郁得分较高，但自尊得分不高。父母迁移和父母健康状况不佳与心理健康结果没有显著关系。提出的保护因素——父母的温暖、一起做事和家庭信贷额度——对教育程度有积极的估计影响，但对大多数心理健康结果没有影响。保护因素和风险因素之间的相互作用很少，而且模式在女孩和男孩中基本相似。
